2024. 08. 28 (Wed) The Fatherland Innovation Party proposes the '4 Laws on Prosecution Reform' Floor Leader Hwang Un-ha proposes to the Democratic Party to 'form a roundtable of opposition parties for the success of the prosecution reform' Rep. Park Eun-jung says, "Through the 4 Laws on Prosecution Reform, we will depoliticize and transform the prosecution organization that provides Kim Kun-hee's customized private on-site service into an institution without authority." Rep. Cha Gyu-geun says, "We will eradicate the investigative agencies' bad practices such as character assassination and abuse of investigative power." The Fatherland Innovation Party is proposing the '4 Laws on Prosecution Reform', including the Public Prosecution Service Act, the Serious Crimes Investigation Service Act, and the Investigation Procedures Act. The core of the bills is to transfer the prosecution's direct investigative powers to the newly established Serious Crimes Investigation Service and to create a public prosecution service dedicated to indictment and maintenance of public prosecution. The Fatherland Innovation Party plans to hold a press conference on the proposal of the '4 Laws on Prosecution Reform' at 9:00 am on the 28th at the National Assembly Communication Center to explain the specific contents. The press conference will be attended by Hwang Un-ha, floor leader, Park Eun-jung, Cha Gyu-geun, former Blue House Civil Affairs Secretary Lee Kwang-cheol, former Legislation Commissioner Kim Hyung-yeon, and Innovation Party Spokesperson Lee Kyu-won. The four prosecution reform bills of the Democratic Party of Korea consist of the Public Prosecution Service Act, the Central Investigation Service Act, the Investigation Procedure Act, and the Criminal Procedure Act. Former Legislation Commissioner Kim Hyung-yeon, special legal advisor for the Democratic Party, emphasized, “We have mobilized all our capabilities to examine every word of the bill.” The core of the Public Prosecution Service Act bill is to separate investigation and prosecution, transfer the investigative authority to the newly established Serious Crimes Investigation Service, and transform the existing prosecution service into a public prosecution service that is solely responsible for prosecution and prosecution maintenance. Specifically, the existing prosecution service will be abolished, and the public prosecution service prosecutors will be solely responsible for controlling the legality of investigations, filing public charges, and maintaining public charges. In addition, a prosecution review committee will be established to ensure citizen control over the right to indict. Rep. Park Eun-jung emphasized, “Through the four prosecution reform laws, we will dismantle the prosecution’s omnipotent power, depoliticize the prosecution, and transform it into a de-authorized institution, and also advance the criminal justice system of the Republic of Korea to the next level.” The main content of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency Act is to abolish the prosecutors’ direct investigative authority and establish a specialized investigation agency with direct investigative authority for corruption, economic crimes, public service crimes, election crimes, defense industry crimes, major disasters, and drug crimes. In other words, the investigative authority transferred from the prosecution will be held by the newly established Central Investigation Agency. The Central Investigation Agency will be established under the Ministry of Justice, but warrant requests for compulsory investigations will be processed through the Public Prosecution Service, thereby establishing a check and balance mechanism to prevent abuse of investigative authority. In addition, by dividing the Central Investigation Agency into several investigative departments and having the head of the investigation headquarters, rather than the commissioner, direct the investigation, we will be able to suppress and block undue external pressure or abuse of investigative authority. Hwang Un-ha, the floor leader, said, “The way to completely suppress the enforcement ordinance coup that disrupted the constitutional spirit of the separation of powers during the time of Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon is to completely abolish and legislate the prosecution’s direct investigation authority,” and added, “We will form an opposition roundtable for the success of the prosecution reform, with the participation of the Fatherland Innovation Party, the five opposition parties, and the Democratic Party, and discuss the legislative strategy for the prosecution reform as soon as possible.” The bill to enact the Investigation Procedure Act, which aims to protect the human rights of the people, deletes or revises the provisions related to the investigation of prosecutors that exist throughout the Criminal Procedure Act, and separates the investigation part of the Criminal Procedure Act to create an independent investigation procedure bill. It includes provisions such as the principle of investigation without detention, the principle of investigation by evidence, and the prohibition of investigation of separate cases and other cases, and specifically sets out principles related to due process and protection of human rights. Rep. Cha Gyu-geun said, “I will do my best to eradicate the bad practices of the existing investigation agencies, such as the abuse of investigative authority, so that no one will be attacked during the investigation like the late Lee Sun-kyun.” If the four prosecution reform laws proposed by the Fatherland Reform Party are passed, the current prosecution system that was enacted and implemented on December 20, 1949 will disappear into history. #FatherlandReformParty #ProsecutionReform #ParkEunJung #PressConference #Fatherland #HwangUnHa